Benefit Upratings

HC Deb 04 November 1988 vol 139 cc808-9W

Mr. Alfred Morris

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the rise in(a) the retail price index and (b) the index of motoring costs between the November 1978 and April 1988 benefit upratings.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

(a) 106.1 per cent.

(b) 99.6 per cent.